‘Tree’ anchors Cannes

Bertucelli's Oz-set drama "The Tree" closes the fest

Scribe-helmer Julie Bertucelli’s Oz-set drama “The Tree” will screen as the out-of-competition closing film of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Based on the novel “Our Father Who Art in the Tree” by Brisbane-born writer Judy Pascoe, pic tells the story of a recently widowed mother of four who hears her dead husband talking to her from the tree in the suburban family garden. Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in the English-language production along with Marton Csokas (“Alice in Wonderland”) and Aden Young.

Based on an adaptation of the novel by Elizabeth J. Mars, pic reps French-born filmmaker Bertucelli’s second Cannes appearance following 2003’s “Since Otar Left,” which nabbed the Critics’ Week best film award.